Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-13
Machining of the Future.

beginning OF the Future.
The projects in the direction of le-
Ultimate enterprise revealed from
time to time, are surprise-even a
revelation--to many OF us. Each
one, as it is evolved by us, brought
into being or made known, adds but
to the positiveness OF opinion con-
cerning the progress to be made here
in the immediate future. In many
cases we can only conjecture what is
being planned or taking place, be-
cause business men are necessarily
reticent; yet when great plans for de-
velopment stare us in the face we
should not fail to see them. This
leads us to suggest to others what
seems to us to be taking place now,
and which appears to be sufficient to
secure and assure our commercial
pro sperity. What is going on, is
your natural inquiry. Well, it looks
this way to the HERALD: The Atchi.
son, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad peo-
pie are at this period exhibiting a
similar vigor and enterprise that
char acterized the Central Pacific
people fifteen years ago. We
draw this comparison clearly re-
memberingi the great and grand
deeds OF Stanford, Croker and
Huntington, when they, as it were,
personally handled the throttle-valye,
and started California ahead in its
prosperity. Without any reflection,
and with the utmost good towards
them and their great companies at
this epoch, We observe them SEEM
ingly with a lighter grasp of the helm,
entru sting affairs to younger and we'll
deser wing men, who may be situated
as Mcclellan was with his army OF
the Potomac, somewhat held back,
by strings reaching from prudent and
more aged superiors. We make this
supposable contrast to indicate a pos
sible alteration in their business
strategy oiihe present time, from
their dash and invincible boldness
in their earlier period, and to Illus
trate why the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Company is giving physical
expression to SO much vigor. The lat
ter is evidently composed OF younger
men, all OF whom are at the helm,
while no retarding strings appear to
hold them back. The latter company
seem to be extending their lines with
lightning speed, and in hitherto un-
thought of directions. They appear
to be making connections everywhere
in this county; they have recently
established an independent line from
Cotton to Los Angeles, which is reach
ing out and on tothe open ocean road
stead, at Santa Monica; thence to the
Ballona, where they seek to obtain
the only harbor available to them
here; thence past Wilmington, as a
freight exchange point, to Long
Beach, and thence most assuredly on
to connect with their various other
lines now aiming at Santa Ana.
| All this is well. II hurts no one +;
it develops the country. Some
thing appears to be following
along closely in the wake
of all this activity-a boom in the
com mercial advance OF Los Angeles.
The Southern Pacific is entering upon
one of its old time acts of heroism in
reaching out to Rattlesnake island
below Wilmington, which operation
will further increase the facilities OF
commerce and make San Pedro a
port of greater importance than ever
before. The other company, without
any present control of an ocean port
on the coast, will surely demonstrate
what there may be in that direction
at the Ballona; and If all goes well,
we shall obtain in these two seaports,
separated as they are, as large a ton
mage from abroad as if these isolated
harbors were concentrated into one.
What all this may do to bring Los
Angeles into equal rank with any
commercial city Of this coast, ought
to be clear to our understanding;
and yet how largely increased the
population will become; how extern
sive our home production from man
ufactures and the soil, or the magni-
tude of our balance OF trade from the
new and increased commerce will be,
is beyond our skill to conjecture.
But these plans Of development, all
thought out and put into execution
SO recently, satisfy us that to-day's
values Of real estate in and around
the city, and lands In the county, are
noither feticions nor exaggerated.
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